J H Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 390898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Free Library of Philadelphia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0071-2337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Obol a Day Net’: Problematising Numbers in Xenophon’s Poroi
Throughout Poroi Xenophon supports his proposals for Athenian economic regeneration with numbers. An examination of the intersection between the financial and rhetorical aspects of his text suggests that none of these numbers should be accepted unquestioningly. It provides useful insight into Athenian methodologies behind budgeting and forecasting across different time-scales and the influence that the need for easy communication of complex calcu…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The lithostratigraphic signal includes both direct components, such as urban constructions and man-…
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. A case can be made for its consideration as a formal epoch in that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of previous Pleistocene interglacial phas…
Xlviii: Lord Kimberley and the foundation of Liberal Irish policy: annotations to George Sigerson’s Modern Ireland: its vital questions, secret societies, and government (1868)
Late in 1868 the Dublin doctor, author and nationalist George Sigerson ( c. 1836–1925) published, under the title Modern Ireland , a collection of widely quoted articles he had written for the Daily Chronicle during the previous year. Among the bewildering flood of Irish commentary on British rule, his was notable for its clear exposition and its moderate tone. From the perspective of the Liberal Party, on the verge of being returned to office, S…
General Washington and the Jack Ass
Research Article| October 01 1977 General Washington and the Jack Ass J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (4): 409–423. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-76-4-409 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. H. Powell; General Washington and the Jack Ass. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1977; 76 (4): 409–42…
Laminarin in some phaeophyta of the pacific coast
The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774-1814
Journal Article The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774– 1814. By J. H. Powell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. 170 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $4.50.) Get access Merrill Jensen Merrill Jensen University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 1958, Pages 528–529, https://doi.org/10…
Epidemics in Colonial America
This is a detailed record of outbreaks of communicable disease from the founding of the North American colonies up to the time of the Revolution
Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution
Letters of Benjamin Rush
Letters of Benjamin Rush. 2 vols. Edited by L. H. Butterfield. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XXX, Pts. 1–2. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. lxxxvii + 1295 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, and index. $15.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 2, September 1952, Pages 325–327, https…
William Shippen, Jr., Pioneer in American Medical Education: A Biographical Essay
James Madison, Father of the Constitution, 1787-1800
James Madison, Father of the Constitution, 1787–1800. By Irving Brant. (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1950. 520 pp. Illustrations and index. $6.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 4, March 1951, Pages 710–712, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889384 Published: 01 March 1951
Bring Out Your Dead! The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched
Delaware's Forgotten River: The Story of the Christina
Journal Article Delaware's Forgotten River: The Story of the Christina. By C. A. Weslager. (Wilmington, Del.: Hambleton Company, Inc., 1947. xiv + 266 pp. Illustrations, front map, bibliography, and index. $3.50.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 2, September 1948, Page 292, https://doi.org/10…
Writings on Pennsylvania History: A Bibliography. A List of Secondary Materials Compiled under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical Association
Journal Article Writings on Pennsylvania History: A Bibliography, A List of Secondary Materials Compiled under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. By Arthur C. Bining, Robert L. Brunhouse, and Norman B. Wilkinson Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1948, Page 106, htt…
Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court
Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court. By Samuel J. Konefsky. (New York: Macmillan, 1945. xxvi + 275 pp. Table of cases and index. $3.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 1, June 1946, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896757 Published: 01 June 1946
American Heroes and Hero-Worship
American Heroes and Hero-Worship. By Gerald W. Johnson. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. 277 pp. Index. $3.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 4, March 1944, Page 595, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916732 Published: 01 March 1944
Richard Rush: Republican Diplomat, 1780-1859
Journal Article Richard Bush: Republican Diplomat, 1780–1859. By J. H. Powell. Pennsylvania Lives Series. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1942. vi + 279 pp. Frontispiece, bibliographical note, and index. $2.75.) Get access Samuel Flagg Bemis Samuel Flagg Bemis Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 29, Issue 4, March 1943, Pages 608–610, https:/…
Simon Cameron: Ante-Bellum Years
Journal Article Simon Cameron: Ante-Bellum Years. By Lee P. Crippen. Men of America. Vol. III. (Oxford, Ohio: The Mississippi Valley Press, 1942. xiii + 244 pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, and index. $3.50.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 1943, Pages 100–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/189…
My Dear Lady: "The Story of Anna Ella Carroll, the "Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet
Journal Article My Dear Lady: The Story of Anna Ella Carroll, the “Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet.” By Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. (New York : Whittlesey House, 1940. xx + 316 pp. Illustrations, appendices, and bibliography. $2.75.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Swarthmore, Pa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 3, December 1941, Page 466, ht…
Path to Freedom: The Struggle for Self-Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703-1776
Journal Article Path to Freedom: The Struggle for Self-Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Donald L. Kemmerer. Princeton History of New Jersey, Vol. III. Edited by Thomas J. Wertenbaker. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. xvi + 384 pp. End-cover-maps, illustrations, and appendix. $3.75.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Iowa State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
Notes from the Tinnevelly District, South India
Hook-Swinging” in India
PROM such records as are available it would appear that within comparatively recent times " hook-swinging " was a rite of common occurrence in certain parts of India; but, with the advance of a higher civilization and under the influence, direct and indirect, of British rule, there has not only arisen an increasing reluctance to practise it in the presence of Europeans, but in many places where in former years the ceremony was regularly observed …
An Obol a Day Net’: Problematising Numbers in Xenophon’s Poroi
Throughout Poroi Xenophon supports his proposals for Athenian economic regeneration with numbers. An examination of the intersection between the financial and rhetorical aspects of his text suggests that none of these numbers should be accepted unquestioningly. It provides useful insight into Athenian methodologies behind budgeting and forecasting across different time-scales and the influence that the need for easy communication of complex calcu…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
Xlviii: Lord Kimberley and the foundation of Liberal Irish policy: annotations to George Sigerson’s Modern Ireland: its vital questions, secret societies, and government (1868)
Late in 1868 the Dublin doctor, author and nationalist George Sigerson ( c. 1836–1925) published, under the title Modern Ireland , a collection of widely quoted articles he had written for the Daily Chronicle during the previous year. Among the bewildering flood of Irish commentary on British rule, his was notable for its clear exposition and its moderate tone. From the perspective of the Liberal Party, on the verge of being returned to office, S…
Hook-Swinging” in India
PROM such records as are available it would appear that within comparatively recent times " hook-swinging " was a rite of common occurrence in certain parts of India; but, with the advance of a higher civilization and under the influence, direct and indirect, of British rule, there has not only arisen an increasing reluctance to practise it in the presence of Europeans, but in many places where in former years the ceremony was regularly observed …
Notes from the Tinnevelly District, South India
Path to Freedom: The Struggle for Self-Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703-1776
Journal Article Path to Freedom: The Struggle for Self-Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Donald L. Kemmerer. Princeton History of New Jersey, Vol. III. Edited by Thomas J. Wertenbaker. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. xvi + 384 pp. End-cover-maps, illustrations, and appendix. $3.75.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Iowa State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
My Dear Lady: "The Story of Anna Ella Carroll, the "Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet
Journal Article My Dear Lady: The Story of Anna Ella Carroll, the “Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet.” By Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. (New York : Whittlesey House, 1940. xx + 316 pp. Illustrations, appendices, and bibliography. $2.75.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Swarthmore, Pa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 3, December 1941, Page 466, ht…
Richard Rush: Republican Diplomat, 1780-1859
Journal Article Richard Bush: Republican Diplomat, 1780–1859. By J. H. Powell. Pennsylvania Lives Series. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1942. vi + 279 pp. Frontispiece, bibliographical note, and index. $2.75.) Get access Samuel Flagg Bemis Samuel Flagg Bemis Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 29, Issue 4, March 1943, Pages 608–610, https:/…
Simon Cameron: Ante-Bellum Years
Journal Article Simon Cameron: Ante-Bellum Years. By Lee P. Crippen. Men of America. Vol. III. (Oxford, Ohio: The Mississippi Valley Press, 1942. xiii + 244 pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, and index. $3.50.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 1943, Pages 100–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/189…
American Heroes and Hero-Worship
American Heroes and Hero-Worship. By Gerald W. Johnson. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. 277 pp. Index. $3.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 4, March 1944, Page 595, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916732 Published: 01 March 1944
Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court
Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court. By Samuel J. Konefsky. (New York: Macmillan, 1945. xxvi + 275 pp. Table of cases and index. $3.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 1, June 1946, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896757 Published: 01 June 1946
Delaware's Forgotten River: The Story of the Christina
Journal Article Delaware's Forgotten River: The Story of the Christina. By C. A. Weslager. (Wilmington, Del.: Hambleton Company, Inc., 1947. xiv + 266 pp. Illustrations, front map, bibliography, and index. $3.50.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 2, September 1948, Page 292, https://doi.org/10…
Writings on Pennsylvania History: A Bibliography. A List of Secondary Materials Compiled under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical Association
Journal Article Writings on Pennsylvania History: A Bibliography, A List of Secondary Materials Compiled under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. By Arthur C. Bining, Robert L. Brunhouse, and Norman B. Wilkinson Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell The Free Library of Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1948, Page 106, htt…
Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched
Bring Out Your Dead! The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
William Shippen, Jr., Pioneer in American Medical Education: A Biographical Essay
James Madison, Father of the Constitution, 1787-1800
James Madison, Father of the Constitution, 1787–1800. By Irving Brant. (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1950. 520 pp. Illustrations and index. $6.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 4, March 1951, Pages 710–712, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889384 Published: 01 March 1951
Letters of Benjamin Rush
Letters of Benjamin Rush. 2 vols. Edited by L. H. Butterfield. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XXX, Pts. 1–2. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. lxxxvii + 1295 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, and index. $15.00.) Get access J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 2, September 1952, Pages 325–327, https…
Epidemics in Colonial America
This is a detailed record of outbreaks of communicable disease from the founding of the North American colonies up to the time of the Revolution
Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution
The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774-1814
Journal Article The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774– 1814. By J. H. Powell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. 170 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $4.50.) Get access Merrill Jensen Merrill Jensen University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 1958, Pages 528–529, https://doi.org/10…
Laminarin in some phaeophyta of the pacific coast
General Washington and the Jack Ass
Research Article| October 01 1977 General Washington and the Jack Ass J. H. Powell J. H. Powell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (4): 409–423. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-76-4-409 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. H. Powell; General Washington and the Jack Ass. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1977; 76 (4): 409–42…
Xlviii: Lord Kimberley and the foundation of Liberal Irish policy: annotations to George Sigerson’s Modern Ireland: its vital questions, secret societies, and government (1868)
Late in 1868 the Dublin doctor, author and nationalist George Sigerson ( c. 1836–1925) published, under the title Modern Ireland , a collection of widely quoted articles he had written for the Daily Chronicle during the previous year. Among the bewildering flood of Irish commentary on British rule, his was notable for its clear exposition and its moderate tone. From the perspective of the Liberal Party, on the verge of being returned to office, S…
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. A case can be made for its consideration as a formal epoch in that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of previous Pleistocene interglacial phas…
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The lithostratigraphic signal includes both direct components, such as urban constructions and man-…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
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